Re: Get your plasma TV quick

FYI.There is new EU regulations coming into force fairly quickly that require a large number of products, like TV's and DECT phones, to have a standby power of 1W or less. This is going to be surprisingly tough for quite a few devices.SW.

Re: Get your plasma TV quick

I remember having heart failure when I read the plate on the back of a friend's Plasma. Let's just say he was doing the equivalent of boiling a kettle for six hours every day. crazyWait a couple of years for OLED technology to find it's way onto big screen TV's. The brightness, clarity and contrast will just blow you away! And all for the energy of a 60 watts lightbulb. Not that you'll be allowed to own a 60W lightbulb by then.

Re: Get your plasma TV quick

With some LCD screens power usage can be reduced by manually or automatically changing settings depending on lighting conditions in the room. My 23" LCD reduces from around 55W on Vivid, to around 45W on Normal and around 35W when set for low lighting conditions.

Re: Get your plasma TV quick

Not an electrical boffin, but how much power do you need to switch a relay? (to revert the equipment back to full power from standby)

Its not just that Shutter, standby keeps all the circuits warm and ready for instant fire up, take the electric away and it might take 20 precious seconds to get going

Yes I can see that might cause a problem to some families..... they might just have time to decide to switch it off and go out for the evening, if they have to wait that long for the program to appear!.....